David Wilcox's List: CoPs and networks

"We all have a personal learning network or PLN. Even if we’ve not reached the dizzy heights of Twitter and the like our PLN is all around us every day. It’s the people that we work with and exchange ideas with.
Traditionally our PLN wouldn’t have reached very far beyond the staffroom, but these days in the blink of an eye you can be accessing information and answers from a PLN that spans the globe."

"The Internet is a mess. There’s so much information out there that it’s a blessing we can find anything at all. Sure, you can ask Google for a hint, as long as you know what you’re looking for. But when it comes to discovering new and inspiring things on the Internet, Google isn’t helping at all.

Which is why we need filters. Fortunately, Internet filters exist, and they come in the form of social media curators."

"Curation Platforms are tools enabling you to select manually content online, to edit and share it.

This comparison table is part of a French IT news article about Curation Tools: "Le Guide de la Curation". For more details about products and criteria, please read to the original article: http://pro.01net.com/editorial/529626/le-guide-de-la-curation-(3)-les-outils/
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"The word "network" is often used in different and confusing ways, since it simply refers to interconnections. Networking Action’s focus is inter-organizational. The concept of network is used in a very specific way that can be most easily distinguished from other organizing concepts through the table* below."
Offers a comprehensive framework for categorising networks.

The Patterson Foundation's Journalism Accelerator is designed to stimulate conversations about innovations in the news media. It invites prominent thinkers on a topic to participate in a real-time conversation and then summarizes that conversation to provide ideas and resources to others, says Janet Coats, a consultant for the new-media journalism initiative at the Patterson Foundation.

"A MOOC is a Massive Open Online Course. It is a gathering of participants, of people willing to jointly exchange knowledge and experiences for each of them to build upon. As such it is within the hands of the participants and organizers of a MOOC to change it to their needs. This allows them to use the information and to construct their own ideas or projects.

A MOOC is by itself a non-defined pedagogical format to organize learning/teaching/training on a specific topic in a more informal collaborative way. This guide is meant to be a useful template that can be molded, and build upon as our joint knowledge on MOOC's and new pedagogies grow. Feel free to add your insights to the guide."

"Charities should partner with experts in digital technology and social media, says Dan Sutch"
Also emphasises professional learning networks

"For some time Urban Forum has been looking at ways that we can support greater collaboration between members and finding ways to enable connections to be made. Technological advances, particularly the growth of the internet and social media, offer new opportunities to achieve this that were not there even a decade ago. And while we recognise that social technology cannot replace essential network building that can only take place when people get together face to face, it can complement and enhance it."